How much do Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining make in Wheeling, WV-OH?

Percentile spread

For Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining, the published 10th percentile is $65,040 and the 90th percentile is $84,890. The difference is $19,850, which is 24.5% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $65,040 to the 75th at $84,890, covers $19,850.

The mean annual wage is $76,020, which sits below the median of $81,100. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Wheeling, WV-OH median is 8.9% higher than the national median of $74,500 for Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining. In 2024 national prices the local median is $91,822, which is 23.3% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 8.2% higher than the West Virginia median of $74,950.

Wheeling, WV-OH covers more than one state. The state comparison uses West Virginia, the primary state on the BLS area record.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Wheeling, WV-OH is 88.323, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $81,100 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining at $91,822 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

One other metropolitan area within 200 miles publishes a annual median for Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining. Wheeling, WV-OH ranks 1st of 2 on that median, counting itself. Distance is the great-circle mileage between Census Bureau internal points (U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Core Based Statistical Areas, internal points (INTPTLAT, INTPTLONG).).

• Beckley, WV is 144 miles away, with a median of $74,130 and employment of 200. That median is 8.6% lower than the median here. In 2024 national prices it is $83,887, against $91,822 here.

Employment share

Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining accounts for 0.24% of wage-and-salary employment in Wheeling, WV-OH (140 of 58,130). Nationally the occupation is 0.00% of employment (5,930 of 155,495,730). The local share is 63.15 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.